Reposted Questions from the Canadian Inquisition (RQFTCI*)

[Mark Brader]

On 2020-06-07, I wrote:
> Considering how little traffic rec.games.trivia has these days,
> I'm not going to stop posting QFTCI just because there are no
> new questions. It's been 12 years since I started doing this,
> and I'm simply going to start over, reusing the same questions
> (sometimes with additional edits) that I posted previously.
> If you can remember the answers after that amount of time, when
> bully for you!

The first games that I reposted before were from seasons written
by the Usual Suspects, ending with one from 1998 that I previously
posted in 2009. As we neared the end of that season I was imagining
that the Inquisition might be able to resume play soon, but the
situation is somewhat complicated and there's been nothing decided
about a resumption yet.

So I'm going to continue reposting old rounds, now from seasons
written by other teams. But it turns out that I no longer have
access to the handouts for the next few seasons of old games that
I reposted after the ones from 1998, so I'm jumping ahead a bit
to the second season of 2011, written by the Misplaced Modifiers.
I previously posted that season in 2011 and 2012 under the tag
QFTCIMM, so this time it'll be RQFTCIMM11.

If the Canadian Inquisition resumes before I finish with that
season, then I'll return to posting new material from the league's
recent games.


* Out-of-Date Questions

(This section is repeated from the 2020-06-07 posting, with a few
trivial fixes.)

When reposting games I'll put R on the beginning of the previous
posting tag and an indication of the original year on the end if
it was not there already, e.g. RQFTCI06.


Of course it's also possible that for some questions the answers
have changed. My general rule in that case will be to accept
*either* the answer that was correct when the game was originally
played, *or* the current correct answer. If the answer has changed,
then you'll need to be aware that some subsidiary information
provided as hints within the original question may be out of date.

For example, if the original game date was 2006 and the question
was "What European city was the home of the most recent summer
Olympics?", then you could give the 2006 answer of Athens (2004)
or the 2020 answer of Rio de Janeiro (2016), even though Rio is
not a "European city".

In general with questions like this I'll try to call attention
to words that might be out of date, by marking them with triple
quotation marks. So the actual form of that question when reposted
would be something like: "What European city was the home of the
"""most recent""" summer Olympics?" And the peculiar punctuation
is your hint that the facts might have changed.

I said *might* be out of date, and *might* have changed, because
if you see that punctuation it doesn't mean that the answer *has*
changed. It might be that nothing has changed, or it might be
that a person referred to in the present tense has died, but the
answer is still the same; or anything like that. For example, if
the question was "Who """has had""" the most years in office as US
president?", Franklin Roosevelt would be the only possible answer.
When I post the answer in a case like that, I'll give the answer
and put something like "(still true)" or "(died in 2015)" after it.

For some questions I will use a different rule, such as requiring
the original answer, or requiring you to say which year you are
answering for, and in those cases I will include an explicit note.


* Procedures and Scoring

(This section is repeated from my regular QFTCI introductory
posting.)

The usual rule in our regular league games is that each question
goes to an individual who can answer for 2 points without
assistance, and if he misses, he can consult his team and try
again for 1 point. If the quizmaster judges that an answer is
incomplete, she can ask for more details before ruling the answer
right or wrong.

To maintain the spirit of these rules, I will say that you can
give two answers on every question. But I will penalize you if
you give both a right answer and a wrong answer. My scoring is:

4 points - if you answer once and are right (or twice, both right)
3 points - if you guess twice and are right only the first time
2 points - if you guess twice and are right only the second time

Bonus points may occasionally be available and will be explained in
the relevant round.

If you give only one answer, but with only some sort of additional
comment, please make it clear that that's what you're doing.
If there is any doubt I'll assume that you are giving two answers.
If I see more than two answers, the third and any later ones will
be ignored.

Although there is no rule like this in the Canadian Inquisition,
where it makes sense I will accept answers that I think are almost
close enough (*more than half right*), with a 1-point penalty.

But I will reject answers that I do not think are sufficiently
specific, since there is no opportunity to ask for clarification
when answers are posted in the newsgroup. If I anticipate the
possibility of insufficiently specific answers I will try to
provide guidance in a way that does not spoil the questions,
such as a note in rot13 to be read after you have answered.

You must, of course, answer based on your own knowledge and
nothing else. You must post all your answers in a single posting
(Except in case of technical difficulties, when emailed answers
or multiple postings will be accepted.)

Where a person's name is asked for, *normally you need only give
the surname*. If you do give another part of the name and you're
wrong, your answer is wrong.

--
Mark Brader | "I don't have to stay here to be insulted."
Toronto | "I realize that. You're insulted everywhere, I imagine."
m...@vex.net | -- Theodore Sturgeon

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